A new wave of empirical and data-driven studies on the history of social mobility in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period has been emerging in recent years. This trend bears some resemblance to the wave of historical inequality studies that successfully changed the consensus of long-run trends in inequality in the past decade. In this short reflection, I argue that there are important obstacles to overcome before a similar consensus in the field of historical mobility studies can be reached. Pre-modern historians should be careful to distinguish between different types of mobility, should take contemporary perceptions of social ambition or fear into account, and should Always specify which social groups their results apply to.
VUB, Free University of Brussels, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0003-0269-4950
Titolo del capitolo
Towards a new history of old mobility: obstacles and prospects
Autori
Wouter Ryckbosch
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9.31
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Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
La mobilità sociale nelle società preindustriali: tendenze, cause ed effetti (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Social mobility in pre-industrial societies: tendencies, causes and effects (13th-18th centuries)
Curatori
Angela Orlandi
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Numero di pagine
612
Anno di pubblicazione
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0667-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0666-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0667-9
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0668-6
Collana
Datini Studies in Economic History
ISSN della collana
2975-1241
e-ISSN della collana
2975-1195